72 TilE UNIVERSITY SCIENCE BULLETIN. 



"Very abundant near the sea coast of eastern Massachusetts. Near 

 Chelsea, July 9; and near Charles river, in the vicinity of Newtonville. 



"The posterior angles of the pronotum are obliquely protracted, 

 flattened, obliquely truncated, and with a slight convexity next the outer 

 angle." — Uhler. 



Saldula lugubris Say 1832. 



Aranthifi bif/uhris Say, Heteropt. New Harmony, 34, No. 3. 



"Body black, subopaque. Head between the antenna with three yel- 

 lowish points; antennae, first and second joints dull yellowish before. 

 Thorax and scutel immaculate. Hemelytra immaculate on the corium, 

 or with an obsolete dull yellowish point on the middle of the tip; mem- 

 brane with two or three obsolete dull yellowish spots, inner margin and 

 tip. Beneath with a yellowish spot before each of the anterior feet. 

 Feet pale yellowish; tibi?e and tarsi more dusky; thighs, particularly the 

 anterior and posterior pairs, with a more or less dilated black line 

 toward their tips; coxae black, the anterior pair yellowish at tip, remain- 

 ing pairs slightly tipped with yellowish. 



"Length to tip of hemelytra, less than three-tenths of an inch. 



"For this species I am indebted to Nuttall, who obtained it in Mis- 

 souri."- — Uhler. 



Saldula elongata Uhler 1877. 



Uhler, Bui. U. S. G. G. Surv., Ill, p. 448, 1877. 



"Long-elliptical, narrower anteriorly, dull black, clothed above with 

 prostrate yellowish pubescence, and with a few erect black hairs on the 

 head and pronotum. Head dull black, front very oblique, long and mod- 

 erately narrow, convex, forming an 8-sided tablet, which is bilobed above, 

 grooved down the middle, and with the lower side-margins of the 

 clypeus a little carinated, black; an oblong callous spot each side next 

 the eyes yellow; tylus smooth, black, yellow at tip; labrum piceous, 

 pubescent, yellow along the middle line; eyes brown, oblique, and very 

 prominent; base of head convex, forming a rather long neck, densely, 

 minutely granulated; tip of the lower cheeks orange; bucculae and 

 throat dull black, minutely scabrous and whitish pubescent. Rostrum 

 reaching behind the intermediate coxae, blackish-piceous, paler at tip. 

 Antennae slender, as long as from the tylus to tip of clavus, piceous; the 

 basal joint stouter, fulvous at tip; the second very long, much more 

 than twice the length of the first, pubescent; third and fourth dull black, 

 pubescent, slenderly subfusiform, subequal, each about two-thirds the 

 length of the second. Pronotum subcampanulate, transverse, densely 

 clothed with prostrate golden pubescence, the anterior part very narrow, 

 with the sides steep, the callosities prominent, convex, rugose, deeply 

 indented on the middle and obliquely so each side of it; posterior lobe 

 about one-half as long as the preceding, deeply, squarely sinuated, the 

 humeral angles obliquely prolonged, flattened, longitudinally sulcated, 

 rugose; the sides broadly flattened, tapering anteriorly, the margin ab- 

 ruptly recurved, and fading out next the collum. Pectus polished black, 

 finely, prostrate, whitish pubescent; prosternam very slenderly mar- 

 gined with white. Legs dull testaceous, the femora more or less piceous 

 beneath and on the front and hind surfaces; tibiae with piceous knees, 

 spines and tip; tarsi dull testaceous, the basal and apical joints piceous, 

 the nails dull testaceous. Scutellum coarsely, densely scabrous on the 

 prominent base, the impression very distinct, arcuated; the apical divi- 

 sion transversely rugulose. Hemelytra narrow, thin, very minu-tely 

 scabrous, with a very few coarse punctures on basal and costal areoles; 

 clavus black, golden pubescent, having a few coarse punctures and a 

 wedge-shaped yellow spot next the tip, placed on a velvety-black spot; 

 corium yellowish, the costal margin broadly arcuated, the base broadly 

 flattened and turned up, the edge black; costal area broad and long, 

 the base blackish, the middle with a quadrate spot, and near the tip a 



